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Canada's 150!

To celebrate Canada's 150th!

Category: Newsletter Archive

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Soon Canada turns 150 and a year long soiree begins! Yes it is the sesquicentennial, or 150th anniversary! Careful how you pronounce that, it can be tough to say with a straight face and may garner a few giggles!

However you say it, this is a big deal and a great time to program a Canadian composition and do something uniquely canuck! Aside from performing a Canadian work, you may wish to do something extra like have your group perform with toques and mitts, serve bacon and maple syrup treats at concerts, invite a neighborhood beaver, our national symbol, to snack on un-needed reeds or on that bassoon that is well past repair. It is well known that beavers love reeds and bassoons, not sure on their tastes for bacon or maple syrup!? The choice is yours. However, if interested in finding a Canadian composition for band or choir please see below.

The pdf contains a listing of Canadian band compositions from grade 0.5-grade 6. Includes compositions by Donald Coakley, Howard Cable, Ryan Meeboer, Paul Suchan, Glen Gillis, David Marlatt and more. This compilation is from Canadian publisher Eighth Note, but don’t forget other Canadian composers like Pete Meechan, Allan Gilliland, Robert Buckley, Vince Gassi, Michael Colgrass, Brian McAuley, Douglas Court, or Andre Jutras for example. Truly we are blessed with wonderful Canadian composers. Keen readers will notice some titles in the pdf are also found on our web page.

Choir

Choir Directors please see below for a letter contributed from Cypress Music. If interested in any of these Canadian choral titles just let us know, we will have them promptly...

Click on a title to hear the recording while studying the score - (below)

Canada’s 150th! Most Canadian choirs will be celebrating the big 2017 event in song. American choirs might give us a nod and celebrate with us, eh - and I hear that some singers are immigrating to Canada! Hey, we sing American folksongs all the time! - O Shanandoah, Ol’ Dan Tucker, etc.